Animal Logic is one of the world’s leading design, visual effects, and animation companies. HP server bladesprovide the power, efficiency and density Animal Logic needs for their artists to continue to work while rendering applications are running in the background.

For over 22 years, Nth Generation has provided enterprise IT solutions and value-added strategic consulting services for clients looking to increase efficiency, business productivity, and return on IT investment.

If you have business managers breathing down your neck over slow applications or performance limitations, the answer may not be more memory, drives or storage. It could be just one PCIe card inside your server that unlocks a whole host of compute cycles, allowing you to focus your precious resources elsewhere.

With Gartner just releasing their latest Magic Quadrant for blades, it seems appropriate to write a bit more on BladeSystem. We are both pleased and proud that Gartner placed HP in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Blade servers, for both completeness of vision and ability to execute.

I am a member of the Enterprise Group Global Marketing team blogging on topics of interest for HP Servers. Check out blog posts on all four Server blog sites-Reality Check, The Eye on Blades, Mission Critical Computing and Hyperscale Computing- for exciting news on the future of compute.

Luke Oda is a member of the HP's BCS Marketing team. With a primary focus on marketing programs that support HP's BCS portfolio. His interests include all things mission-critical and the continuing innovation that HP demonstrates across the globe.

Network industry experience for more than 20 years - Data Center, Voice over IP, security, remote access, routing, switching and wireless, with companies such as HP, Cisco, Juniper Networks and Novell.